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C17th hearth tax

This page provides a directory of external sources to relevant hearth tax records in Berkshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, London, and Middlesex for the study of the Oxenden family commercial ventures in the mid seventeenth century

Berkshire

Essex

Hertfordshire

Kent

Wingham hundred, 1662

CKS-U1107/9/1/16 Dering Manuscripts Part 2 sub-fonds OFFICIAL PAPERS series Taxation papers - Hearth Tax: 'Wingham lower half hundred Date 1662 Extent 2pp., 110 names'

CKS-U1107/9/1/17 Dering Manuscripts Part 2 sub-fonds OFFICIAL PAPERS series Taxation papers - Hearth Tax: 'Wingham upper half hundred Date 1662 Extent 6ff., 171 names'

Kent Hearth Tax data of interest, 1864

Extracted from - Harrington

Seavenokes Town

Chargeable
Earle of Dorsett 85
Francis Farnaby gent: 18
Thomas Lamberd Esq(uire) 14

Parish of Seale
Chargeable
S(i)r Tho(mas) Pierce Barron(e)t 13
Daniel Newman gent 18
Henry Swaisland 9
Mr Richard Olliver 8
Mr Stowell 7
Widdow Cox 7
Nicholas Madox 6
Samuel Masters 6
Francis French 5
Margaret Bryant 5
Edward Cox 5
Richard Browne 5
Stephen Olliver 5
James Pelsett 5
Mrs Brett 4
Lawrence Fench 4

Parish of Cudham
Biggest house is only 5 hearths
(see document for data)

Parish of Farmborough
Chargeable
Thomas Broome serjt at Law? 16

Parish of St Paul's Cray
Chargeable
S(i)r Leonard Feerby Knt 15

Parish of St Mary Cray
Chargeable
Mr Edward Manning 12
Mr Thomas Felton 11

Parish of North Cray
Chargeable
Mr Cooke 17
Mr Buggin 16

Parish of Bexley
Chargeable
S(i)r Rob(er)t Austin barr(one)t 29
Henry Grimes gen(tleman) 10
Henry Carew 10

Parish of Bromfield
Chargeable
William Cage Esq(uire) in Leeds Castle 32

Halling Borough
Chargeable
William Clemence 17
Sir John Marsham 8
Thomas Hawes 8

Shorne Southborough
Chargeable
George Woodyer gent 13
Henry Parker gent 12
Gervaise Maplesden 7
Richard Balam cler(ke) 7

The hundred of Little field In the Lath of Aylsford
Mereworth Parish
Chargeable
In Mereworth Castle 23
Mr James Master 21
Mr George Love 8

East Peckham Upper Borough
Chargeable
S(i)r Roger Twisden Kt & Bart 30

The Lowy of Tunbridge
In the Lath of Aylesford
Tunbridge Towne
Chargeable
William Dike Esq(uire) 11
Doctor Amherst 11

The Hundred of Larkefeild In the
Lath of Aylesford
Parish of east Malling
Chargeable
S(i)r Thomas Twysden 23

Parish of Aylesford
Chargeable
Sir John Banks 25
George Duke Esq 15
John Taylor 10

The Borough of Oxinoth
in the Hundred of Hoo in Aylesford lath
Chargeable
Sir Humphrey Miller 18
Max: Dalyson Esquire 10

The Towne of Maidstone
In the lath of Aylesford
The High Towne
Chargeable
Dame Ann Asteley 18
Mr William Bickford 17
Walter Giles 13
Mrs Dixon widdow 13
Mr Robert Brooke 10
Thomas Howting 9
Thomas Wood 9
John Downes 9
John Callant junior 8
Mr John Callant senior 8
Richard Duke Esquire 8
Mr Edward Maplisden 8
Mr Gervase Maplisden 8
Thomas Merriam 8
Robert Callant 8
Mr James Ruse 8
Mr George Ongley 7
William Charlton 7
John Goare 7
Dudly St Leager 7
Stephen Weekes 7
William Willard 7
Mr Gervase Maplesden junior 3
Edward Jury 7
George Maplesden 7
John Merriam 2

The Hundred of Chetham and Gillingham
In the Lath of Aylesford
The half hundred of Chetham
Chargeable
In ye King's pay house 14
Mr William Jenman 13
Mr Charles Boules 13
Peter Pett Esquire 12
Mr Henry Sheafe 12
Mr William Hempson 12
Captain John Brock 11
Mr Haward in 4 tenements 11
Captain John Crux 10
Nathaniel Holt 10
James Ansell 10
Mr Phillip Barrow 9
Mr Phineas Pett 9
Capt. Phineas Pett 8
John Knight 8
Capt. John Allen 8
Charles Smyth 8
Thomas Bensonn 8
Jihn Wood
Robert Castle 8
Thomas Stretton 7
Robert Fitzhugh 7
Thomas Fletcher 7
Walter Dyer 7
Richard Cooke 7

London

Middlesex